No preference option to disable iPhone image resizing

This is an argument I don’t understand, the whole no MMS on the phone. Here’s the thing, there is a split in the road in what a handheld experience should be from an Apple perspective and a handset carrier/software provider perspective. Having worked for many years for Openwave (provides MMS/WAP services for majority of large carriers) I can say without a doubt that their model (Openwave’s) is soon to be dead. There is no future in mms/wap gateways. Why? Cause people want a desktop experience on our phone, not the other way around. What’s a MMS message after all? We don’t send mms messages on our desktops, we use email or chat. That’s what should be on the phone. MMS gateways are expensive, slow and a nightmare maintenance wise.

Apple sidestepped MMS and WAP thankfully and it’s much better for it. SMS is fine and dandy, but chat will overtake that soon enough as well.

yeah the resizing thing is really lame apple should know better since a big part of thier customer base are artists!

another bug — when writing a text message, if you hit “send” during a moment when you’ve lost service, the iphone hangs. you get an error message, and can edit the message, but the send button does no longer responds. there is no way to save the message to send later, or have it queued. did anyone test this phone before it was sold?

“First no MMS on the iPhones? Now automatically resized images sent via email? Update Mail preferences Apple!”

Is that sarcasm? i cant tell.

Have you been able to download your pictures that you took from your camera on the iPhone to a windows PC folder? I’m yet able to do so.

Craptastic are you serious? I could give you a laundry list of real MAJOR bugs that exist on the treo, which has been around for significantly longer than 4 days. Not being able to save a sms as a draft is minor and as always I’m sure will be updated at some point. Sometimes people really grasp at the oddest things to try and bash the iphone about.

I don’t have an iPhone, but I know that there’s an option for iPods in iTunes to include the full resolution photos when syncing, assuming that the photos you want are from iPhoto. You may want to check it out.

@DAN

I did some uploads to flickr from my phone and I have no complaints about the size, check it out, I think it’s just about perfect as far as size and resolution… better than any other cell phone camera I’ve ever had.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1040/727979858_ac4646b29e_o.jpg

I’ve been looking for a solution to this as well. I don’t think that this option would help even if it were present for viewing hi res images on the iPhone and zooming in to them because of the way the iPhone stores and views images, which seems to be the same as other iPods.

Unfortunately it seems that Apple has chosen to store images on the iPhone using a proprietary format that is used on other iPods. When a picture is transferred to the iPhone for viewing it is converted into an .ithmb file. The file can is either exactly 52kb or 708kb, regardless of the size of the orginal file. This leads to the perplexing situation where relatively decent resolution jpg files get converted to a file that is both larger and a lower resolution.

You can also see these .ithmb files on your computer: They are stored in a folder called iPod Photo Cache in your iPhoto Library and can’t be opened (there is a viewer for them available but it doesn’t do much other than let you see the image in the file).

The option on photo enabled iPods to store photo’s at their original resolution doesn’t affect this. In this case it seems that the original photos are stored along with the converted .ithmb version of those photos. When viewed on the iPod the software looks at the .ithmb photos.

I’ve only looked into this the last few days because I would like to have hi res images stored for viewing on the iPhone. It would allow the iPhone to store and organize virtually any document you have on the Mac in iPhoto for easy syncing and viewing by using the Print to iPhoto Automator workflow that appears in the PDF menu on the print dialog.